From manufacturing batteries for electric vehicles and satellites to creating authentic pizza robots.
you never know to where can your career take you, and the entrepreneurship opportunities that will open up in your path. And if not, let them tell benson tsaithe former engineer SpaceX that now is dedicated to making pizzas. For many, this trajectory may seem like a failure, but on the contrary, Tsai is the CEO of Steller’s Pizzaone of the startups that has managed to successfully combine robotics and fast food. The firm has a fleet of “foodtrucks” that integrate a robotic system that prepares, cooks and cuts the pizzas in matter of minutes.
It all started in 2019, when a group of three SpaceX engineers left their employment in the empire of Elon Musk to start with their particular idea: a robotic pizzeria. Benson Tsai, Brian Langone and James Wahawisan took more than 23 SpaceX employees who, seduced by the project, began to work on Stellar Pizza. Benson Tsai spent five years at SpaceX Advanced Battery Systems for Rockets and Satellites, and he couldn’t help but bring this space theme to the design of your pizza brand. It is certainly a clear example of a career that has turned 180 degrees, in this case in the right direction.
The chain began its commercial journey this year in Los Angeles, and this fall it intends to expand to the entire national territory. Today he is already beginning to take shape as one of the big names in the industry.
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The minds behind this peculiar idea have managed to integrate all the robotic equipment necessary to make pizzas in the back of a truck. Stellar Pizza’s robots can prepare the pizza to your liking, heating it in ultra-fast ovens and cutting it into perfect portions. All in record timethe pizzas are ready in less than 5 minutes. The specialty of the “house” is the pepperoni pizzabut from their own application, customers can tell the robot the ingredients they want on their pizza.
The particular pizzeria has caught the attention of investors, and has recently received a large injection of capital. It was thanks to Marcy Venture Partnersthe venture capital firm of Jay Z, which just joined the latest Series A funding round of $16.5 million. Beyoncée’s husband and famous rapper has bet heavily on robo-pizzas, which is evident has attracted the attention of even more investors.
The business model that Stellar Pizza maintains is very easy to extrapolate, and although right now the robots work from trucks, they could start to rent premises and install your robots in the kitchens.